Join us for an exciting talk and book signing with Dennis "Oil Can" Boyd!
Dennis "Oil Can" Boyd rose from the poverty and racism of 1960s Mississippi to become one of the most colorful and memorable players in Major League Baseball history. Boyd played for the Boston Red Sox, Montreal Expos, and Texas Rangers during his 10-year career, including a 16-win season for the unforgettable 1986 Red Sox. Mike Shalin covered the Red Sox during his 22-year career with the Boston Herald. In They Call Me Oil Can: Baseball, Drugs, and Life on the Edge, Oil Can opens up, telling all to veteran scribe Shalin from his childhood in Mississippi, to finding salvation in baseball, to the ill-fated 1986 World Series.
This program is free and open to all. Books will be available for sale and signing from Books on the Square, Providence.
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